Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true that when the stock market dipped recently President Kennedy canceled his subscription to the Wall Street-Journal...
...bloc's main source of hard currency, and in the case of Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia accounts for 30% of their trade. The Reds fear that this trade will be sharply cut as the Six deal more among themselves and less with nonmembers across the tariff wall, and that Communist trade will be clobbered in non-European markets by competition from the Six. To visiting Italian Foreign Trade Minister Luigi Preti, Khrushchev complained last week that the partnership between capitalist countries "is a marriage against nature, and nature will see it broken. In this marriage, there...
...olde,' or, as for example is happening on the West Coast, the in dulgence in 'Japanesery.' This may even be tolerable, although derivative, eclectic, or full of gimcracks, when the alternatives are considered ... the chrome and glass, spit and polish, modular articulated, cur tain wall, mechanistic, slick finish, straight and endless directions which are spring ing up around...
...Over the Wall. But if it is relatively safe, Monaco is one of the world's most exciting auto races. The course plunges wildly through the 368-acre Mediterranean principality itself, swooping up the narrow streets from the harbor, past the Hotel de Paris and Cartier's, and zigzagging down again from the Casino gardens through a tunnel to the waterfront...
...three hours, cars race nose to tail, their drivers compelled to shift gears on an average of once every 10 sec. The racket of screaming engines echoes deafeningly off cliffs and building walls. The accidents are spectacular. One year a driver ended up with his radiator embedded in the ticket office of Monte Carlo's railroad station, and in 1955 Italy's great Alberto Ascari drove his Lancia over the sea wall into the Mediterranean...